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"Why did it take you two so long to get here? Flutters and I have been waiting here for THREE HOURS! Where the hay have you two been?" Rainbow Dash asked when Applejack and Rarity finally made it to Twilight's castle. The farmer and the fashionista smiled sheepishly.

"Um...I was helping her with...something," Rarity said, a blush coming to her snout. Applejack chuckled, tilting her hat.

"What were you helping her with, Rarity?" Fluttershy asked.

"And why did it take THREE HOURS?!" Rainbow Dash added.

"I just needed her to help me with a spill. Something got spilled and I needed her to help me clean it up. Yeah," Applejack said, her eyes shifting from side to side.

"You needed her to help you clean a spill...FOR.THREE.HOURS?!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

"Oh, for the love of...why're we still dancing around this? Look, Applejack and I were having sex alright? That's what we were doing. We were having sex, we were fucking each other, her tongue was deep in my nether regions and flicking my clit! AM I MAKING THIS CLEAR ENOUGH?! WE.WERE.HAVING.BONE CRUSHING.MIND-BLOWING.PASSIONATE.SEX!" Rarity yelled, finally stopping the game. If Applejack's face had gotten any redder, she would be a tomato.

"Well, you both could have told us that from the start. It's understandable, Rare. Flutters and I need to get our rocks off with each other now and then too," Rainbow Dash said with a smirk.

"Dashie! Time and place!" Fluttershy said, hiding behind her mane.

"Now, let's go and see Twilight," Rarity said, after a few moments of awkward silence passed.

"TWILIGHT! DARLING, ARE YOU HERE?!" Rarity called, as she and the girls walked into the dark castle.

"TWI?! SUGARCUBE?" Applejack called out. Silence answered back.

"This doesn't bode well," Rainbow Dash said, as they headed further into the castle. It looked like nopony had been there for a moth. There was dust, cobwebs were forming, and it was EXCEEDINGLY cold.

"TWILIGHT?!" Applejack called again. This time they got an answer.

"Applejack? Girls, is that you?"

"SPIKE?! You've been here all this time, little guy?" Rainbow Dash asked. The baby dragon nodded.

"Have you seen Twilight, Spike?" Fluttershy asked.

"No! The last time I saw her was when you all went to the bank! It's been two days! I'm worried," Spike said.

"That doesn't sound like Twilight at all. Gone for two days and she doesn't say ANYTHING about where she is or come back? This is bad," Applejack said.

"Well, what do we do?" Spike asked.

"We're going to get help, Spike. You stay here and tell us if Twilight comes back," Fluttershy said, rubbing the baby dragon's head.

Spike shook his head. "No! If Twilight's in trouble, I should help her too!"

"Spike, we know your concerned for Twilight, and it's understandable, but yer just a baby, Sugarcube. If something dangerous happened to Twilight, it's important you stay safe. If we don't come back, we need you to tell Princess Celestia what's happened. Okay?" Applejack asked. The purple dragon frowned, but nodded in agreement.

"Not to worry, Spikey Wikey. Twilight will be back before you know it," Rarity said.

"Come on, girls. I know the one pony who can help us find Twilight," Rainbow Dash said, as the other ponies turned to leave.

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"WHERE IS THE CLONE?! WHERE.IS.IT?!!!!!!" Princess Celestia screamed, throwing rocks and stalactites around the cave of the Mirror Pool. She'd searched high and low and in every corner of the cave, and there was no clone. "I WAS SURE THERE WAS A CLONE! WHAT OTHER PONY COULD HAVE EXECUTED A BREAKOUT LIKE THAT?"

"Tia, perhaps the clone is wherever the Joker is," Luna suggested, trying desperately to calm her sister down.

"Hmm. You may be right, Luna. We find the Joker, we find the clone, we take care of them both! It's win-win!" Celestia said, laughing in triumph. Then, her eyes narrowed. "That is, it would be a win-win, if we knew where the Joker was."

"Perhaps a location spell, Tia?" Celestia sighed, flaring up her horn in response. Silence reigned for a few minutes, before Celestia finally reacted.

"GRAHH! I'm being blocked! SOMETHING is blocking my magic from locating the Joker! HOW CAN I BE BLOCKED! GRRAAAAHHHHH!!!!" The cork had finally blown. Her eyes glowing and her aura rising, Celestia roared and released a torrent of flame out of her glowing red horn. Luna gasped. She'd seen her sister angry, seen her be able to manipulate flame when she got angry, but this was the first time she'd ever seen her let loose. The cave began to shake, the stalactites cracking, and large ripples appeared in the Mirror Pool.

"TIA! Calm down! If you keep going, you'll bring the whole cave down on us! Look, we'll find her! She can't have LEFT Equestria, she has to be here! We'll find her!" Luna yelled over the sound of Celestia's rage. Her aura disappearing, and her horn returning to normal, Celestia took a deep breath.

"Luna, I want you to find me the best detective in Equestria and I want them to be at Canterlot YESTERDAY! You will conduct the investigation with them, while I'm with Arch, and we are NOT to be disturbed! Understood?!" she asked. Luna nodded.

"Good. Let us return to Canterlot, dear sister. By the way, make sure you send somepony to destroy this cave. It's caused too much trouble," Celestia said. Luna nodded, as she and Celestia teleported back to Canterlot.

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Night had fallen, and the remaining members of the Elements stood atop the roof of the new police station in Ponyville. The floodlight that was situated on it was shining, calling Ponyville's mysterious masked hero.

"I don't know, you think they're coming? Because my argument is, why would they?" Rainbow Dash asked, looking up into the starry night sky.

"They usually come when this light is turned on," Applejack said. 5 minutes turned to 10 and 10 turned to 30 and still nothing. Soon, it got to an hour, when the Elements felt a presence behind them.

"The Bat-Signal is not a toy, girls," Batmare said, in the same raspy, deep tone. Now, the Elements finally could get a good look at the Masked Mare of Ponyville. They could definitely see that it was a mare, the shape of the muzzle was unmistakable, and yet, this mare was still a mystery. She was wearing lifts in her costume to make herself taller, Rarity could recognize them from a mile away. It was hard to tell whether she was a pegasus or earth pony, as the large pointed cape she wore was covering her back, obscuring it, and covering most of her body, shrouding her. They could all see that the suit she wore was AMAZINGLY high-tech. More high-tech than they'd ever seen, almost like a modern suit of armor. The belt that was around her had A LOT of compartments and from the looks of things, could hold all a manner of different items. And it seemed like she was wearing glass lenses or something else to obscure her eyes, as they were bright and all white.

"Well, we didn't have any other way of contacting you, Ms. Batmare...ma'am," Fluttershy said, cowering inside her mane.

"We need your help. Our friend Twilight has been missing for two days. The last time we saw her was when you fought the Joker in the bank. She hasn't been back since then, and we're very concerned. We don't have ANY idea where she could be, and so we hoped you could help us out," Applejack said. Batmare's eyes narrowed. She had seen Twilight's change in behavior at the bank and it had worried her too, but the reveal of the Joker's accomplice and the breakout had occupied most of her attention recently. However, if she found Princess Twilight, perhaps it could lead her TO the Joker.

"I can't promise anything, girls, but...I'll look into it," Batmare said, turning to leave.

"Wait! We didn't get to say thank you!" Rainbow Dash said.

"And you'll never have to," Batmare said, galloping across the roof and leaping off before unfolding the cape and flying away.

"Okay, I'm gonna say this once. She is WAY cooler than I ever thought she could be," Rainbow Dash said, smiling at the ever decreasing form of Batmare.

"Come on, girls. Let's get back home. Batmare's got this under control," Applejack said.

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Once she was out of sight, Batmare landed behind a small cluster of buildings.

"Oracle, is there any new info about Princess Twilight? Anything about her disappearance or suspected whereabouts?" Batmare asked.

"Nothing solid. Rumors here or there, but nothing concrete. I can widen the search if you want to further than just Ponyville or the Royal Sections of Canterlot," Oracle replied.

"Widen the search to include Twilight's friends from Magic Kindergarten. List them for me, will you?" Batmare asked, as she galloped through the dark streets of Ponyville.

"Lemon Hearts, Minuette, Lyra Heartstrings, Twinkle Shine and Moondancer," Oracle stated.

"Hmm. Take Moondancer off the list for right now, let's focus on Lyra, Minuette and Lemon Hearts for the time being," Batmare said.

"Got it. By the way, your dinner's getting cold," Oracle said.

"Don't rub it in," Batmare snapped, as she galloped through a hedge and into a cave. Time to prepare to return to her secret identity in the morning.

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Author's Note

I really liked this chapter. It was fun to go through all the different characters, and writing Celestia's rage was really fun. So, the next chapter is going to have a bit of...explicit moments with Celestia and her boytoy Arch. That may be the ENTIRE chapter, to give a bit of context to Celestia at this point since for the most part I've been focusing on Twilight, Pinkie and the other Elements, and even Batmare. The last chapter that I made that gave context for Celestia was 'Secrets of the Princess' which was CHAPTER 2! I think it's high time Sunbutt got a chapter ALL to herself. When the chapter with the Gala happens, that's where Batmare's identity will be revealed. But, here's one more hint. Batmare's coat color is not the following: Red, Yellow, Orange, Pink, Green, Blue, or Purple. Like I said, next chapter is gonna be explicit, so ye be warned. See ya next time guys.